The artist took color photos of the 14-year-old prisoner of Auschwitz and other rare pictures

Digital artist Marina Amaral has been colorizing historical photographs for three years now. Not so long ago, she introduced updated images of a 14-year-old Polish prisoner at Auschwitz. Breathing life into black and white images, Amaral was able to visually emphasize the tragic past of Ceslava Kwoka.

"It was very difficult to look at her face for so many minutes, knowing what happened to her- says the artist. - I wanted to give Cheslava the opportunity to tell her story, which is also the story of many other victims.".

"It is much easier to build our attitude towards these people when we see them in color. We better understand what she went through, as well as millions of other people, when we see her bruises, cuts on her lips and red blood on her face. The Holocaust did not begin with massacres. It started with hate rhetoric".

The shots were originally made by Wilhelm Brass, better known as the "famous photographer of the Auschwitz concentration camp." "I clearly remember a shot of this particular prisoner- he said in an interview. - That's because she looked so young, so disarmingly fragile". When she arrived at the camp, she could not understand what she was told. "So, a woman named Kapo (the overseer) took a stick and beat her in the face. This German woman just spilled her anger at the girl. Such a beautiful young girl, so innocent. She cried, but could not do anything. Before the shooting, the girl wiped "tears and blood from a cut on my lip. Honestly, it seemed to me that they beat me, but I could not intervene. For me it would be fatal".

Ceslava was one of the "approximately 230,000 children and young people under the age of 18 years" among the 1,300,000 people who were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau from 1940 to 1945. She was taken to Auschwitz (Auschwitz) from the town of Zamosc (Poland) on December 13, 1942. On March 12, 1943, Kwoka died at the age of 14. The circumstances of her death were not recorded.